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I recently learned about a slew of Adobe mobile apps and one of my new favorite tools is Adobe Post. It's an iPhone app (that works just as well on the iPad) that allows you to very easily create beautiful image and text graphics.

You simply choose a photo as a backdrop, then add text. Sound too easy? And, here is the really cool part .... after you select your image, the app analyzes the image and chooses a font color palette for your text. And who knows more about creative design than Adobe? Certainly not me!

If you don't like the suggested font and color, you can choose a different design or adjust the color palette, but I have found that for the most part, Adobe Post makes great suggestions! After you're done you can share on social media, save to your camera roll, export to Google Drive, and more.

There's a new video conference tool in town and it's pretty darn cool! Google has released the new Google Hangouts Meet - a simple to use video conference tool with some great benefits.

One, it's super easy to easy. Simply go to meet.google.com and start a new meeting (provided your G Suite admin has allowed you to do so). Then share the URL with others. You can also schedule your meets ahead of time using Google Calendar and they will show up as an upcoming event on you Meet page.

Here's the best part! People joining your meeting don't even need a Google account! This may help with parents who haven't joined the Google bandwagon yet.

First and foremost, thanks to the incredible Miguel Guhlin for letting me know about today's Friday Freebie which I dub "The World's Easiest Video Conference System." It's appear.in. And, it truly is easy.

Navigate to appear.in and simply start a video conference. When you get to the landing page, you'll see appear.in auto-generated unique URL's for your session. It comes up with some crazy names. The first time I tried it, my video conference URL was appear.in/private-fox. One of my student tech interns had to point out to me that you can simply create your own URL buy typing in the text box where the unique names are being generated. (Smart kids!). So, I started a new session at appear.in/DrRios.

And that was it! I was in and could send the link to anyone else. All an attendee has to do is go to that URL and they're in too. You can have up to 8 people in a conference. Now, to "claim" a URL, you need an account, but it's FREE! So now,…